Intestinal Fluke Echinostoma Sp | Information From Parasitic Doctor

In daily life, eating raw or undercooked foods, as well as due to living conditions and environmental sanitation, people can be infected with intestinal flukes and other fluke. By 2012, more than 700 million people in the world were living in the epidemic area and there were more than 40 million people infected with fluke, including large / small liver fluke, mixed flukes, intestinal fluke ...
General information about intestinal fluke Echinostoma sp
The intestinal flukes of Echinostoma sp were first recorded in 1907 by Garrison in Manila

. In 1922-1925 Leiper described the shape and biological cycle of adult intestinal fluke infections in humans and mammals.
Shape of intestinal flukes Echinostoma sp contraception
Intestinal flukes Echinostoma sp Platyhelminthes, Trematoda, Echinostomada family Echinostomatidae. There are 10 types of parasites in humans and 400 types of pathogens in birds and mammals
The shape of intestinal flukes (echino = spines, stoma = mouth), adult flukes is about 6 5mm = 12mm, the width is 1mm-2mm depending on the species.



. The intestinal flukes have a mouth sucker and a disc in the abdomen. Flukes have a hook in the head ring, the tip of the head or around the suction plate.
The tapeworm has yolk yolk glands; The uterus contains eggs in the foreground, behind the testicles and the ovaries. The testicle mass may be oval or lobed.
How to spread intestinal fluke disease?
Trichinosis is a parasitic disease spread by food from water. Due to the exchange of the Mekong River between countries in Southeast Asia, we need to think about this parasite disease in patients with diarrhea, abdominal pain, especially those living in the field by the Mekong River
The development cycle of intestinal flukes Echinostoma sp
Depending on the species, the intestinal flukes parasitize in the colon or small intestine of the host permanently. Permanent hosts are storks, predators (dogs, cats), rodents (mice, squirrels, etc.) and humans.



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The development cycle of intestinal fluke disease
The intestinal flukes lay unborn embryos in the feces outward and develop in water, 10 days after hatching eggs swim in the water larvae, then penetrate into intermediate larvae, snails. In the body, hairy larvae develop through the stage of follicular spores, redia generation 1 and redia 2 are finally tail larvae.
It takes about 30 days for the hairy larvae to turn into tail larvae. Then the larvae into the second intermediate parasite are snails, mussels, tadpoles .. develop into post-larvae. At this time, the animal or predator that is infected with the second intermediate parasite will become ill.
When parasitic in the small intestine depending on the number of flukes to cause symptoms or not but usually a mild symptom is less severe symptoms. Intestinal flukes are mainly distributed in Asia and Latin America.



. In Asia, there is a lot of concentration in Southeast Asia.
Treatment of intestinal fluke disease
Effective treatment drugs are praziquatel, albendazole, bithional, etc Should be examined and treated at the parasite clinic. Can gastrointestinal endoscopy to catch flukes and put on a microscope to identify. Should be performed at a health facility with gastrointestinal endoscopy function.
Pictures of intestinal fluke parasites in the gastrointestinal tract
Prevention of intestinal fluke disease like?
Intestinal fluke disease is still an unsolved community problem. Prevention is mainly preventive by community education methods such as diet, daily activities, not eating raw fish, raw snails or undercooked food.
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